Hi, my name is Maile and today I'm going to teach you a little about the ColorSource 20 console.
The ColorSource 20 console has 20 sliders that can be used as either playbacks or as channels.
It also has a DMX port and four configurable faders
that I can use as a crossfader, cues, playbacks, or as bumps.
Getting the console set up is really easy.
To patch I simply go into {Settings} and I hit {Patch}.
As you will see, it says that it is searching for RDM devices.
The console can automatically recognize certain fixtures.
To patch, I simply select one, and I can identify it by hitting {Identify}.
Now that I know which fixture I'm working with
I can simply go down the line and press the button underneath the sliders
to assign a fixture to a channel.
And now that all of them are identified and patched,
I can take it out of Identify and into our home screen.
Now that everything is patched, I can check and see that all the lights work.
Now that all of them are on, I can change their color by selecting the color wheel
and switching between any of the color chips.
if I don't like the color chips I can also go into this menu here and make my own colors.
As you can see, that was pretty easy to do.
But, if I'm still confused, I can go into the {Help} menu
and select any of the things on the screen
and it will give me a description of what that does and how it works.
You will see if I press the {Home} button I can see a list of tutorial videos to watch and learn from.
I'll play one now.
Now that I have all of my fixtures patched and ready to go
I can change the way that the pictures are range as channel boxes on my screen.
Simply press and hold to select them.
Now that it's ready I can change the configuration of how the channel boxes look on the screen.
It's really helpful to be able to change the location of the channel boxes on the screen.
Now that I have all my channels adjusted to how I want them to be I can start designing my show.
First, I'm going to lift the sliders of the fixtures I want to use.
Now that I have those selected, I can change the color of them.
I'm going to make these red.
Now I can record this look by pressing {Record} and hitting {Cue}.
This records it as a cue.
And I can change the name of it, which I will change to "red."
I can also adjust things like the Time In, the Time Out, and the Wait.
Let's change the Time In to 3 seconds. And now I can hit {Store}
Now that I have one down, I can do another.
Let's say I want to use the exact same fixtures in blue.
Now that my fixtures are blue, I hit {Record} {Cue} and we are going to change the name to "blue"
and hit {Store}.
Now that I have my cues recorded, I can play them back by pressing the [▶] button.
You will also see that it shows me the name of the cue in the upper right-hand corner.
I can scroll through them.
Now I can go into my {Cue List} and view the cues also.
I can see what they are doing, the time, and the name of them,
and I can scroll through the same way.
I can also zoom in on my fixtures so I can see more clearly what they are doing.
Cues can be really helpful because I can easily switch from one view to another
and switch between the different looks so that it makes sense in a show
There are sometimes when it's not as easy to switch from one to the other
and you might have to switch back and forth between a few different looks and those
Those are the times when you kind of have to think on your feet and keep things moving.
That is when I would use a Playback.
I recorded playback pretty similarly to a cue.
I select the lights that I want to use,
and I will select the color that I want to make them - we will do a red and a blue again -
and we hit {Record} as a {Playback Memory}.
I'm going to record this as Playback number 1.
We can see that this playback stored by going {Home} and pressing {Playback} mode.
Now that I am in Playback mode can raise my slider and have control over my fixtures.
Now that I have one look, I can make a second.
I switch back into {Channel} mode and I raise the lights that I want to use.
And I can change the color to blue.
I record it by pressing {Record} as a {Playback Memory}
In slider number 2.
Now that I have that done, I can check it again by going into {Playback}
and checking that fader 2 controls it, and we see that it does.
One thing that's really cool about this is that I can actually mix colors between two Playbacks.
When I bring up the red and the blue at the same time it makes magenta.
I can change this by changing the intensity of one slider or another
which changes the color of the light.
I can do this regardless of the mode that the fixtures are in.
Another way I control my lights, is by selecting on the touch screen the lights I want to use.
This time I'm going to use the top three.
And I can zoom in and bring up the lights by using my Level.
Now that I have those in use, I'm going to add a color effect to this.
I can go into {Menu} and I can hit {Effects}
You will see on my screen that I have color, shape, intensity, and parameter effects.
For this we are just going to use a color effect
and I'm going to select {Rainbow}.
Now it will scroll through all the colors of the rainbow,
and you can see that my effect is going to end up in this column
so I can see which effect is working right now.
I can then record that effect and this new look into a Playback.
I hit {Record} {Playback Memory} and I'm going to store it in 3.
I can return to my [Home] screen.
Now to play it back I can put it in {Playback} mode and raise slider number 3 where I recorded it.
I can also record sequences on to playbacks.
To do this, I first select the light I want to use, and hit {Record} as a {Playback Seq}
I'm going to record this in to slider number 4
and I hit {Store & New}.
Now I can switch, go to the next, {Store & New}
Now I can switch, and go to the last, and hit {Store & Exit}.
Now that I have all of these stored
I can see that they worked by going into {Playback} and bringing up slider number 4.
And they will cycle through all the different steps that I did to make it.
Sequences can be really helpful for doing things such as chases, which I'm doing now
where the lights go and an assigned order
and they continue that order as the playback stays up.
The ColorSource can control a lot of different things and this is only just scratching the surface.
It also does things like controlling moving lights.
The possibilities are sort of endless with this console.
I'm Maile Varian, I go to West High School here in Madison
and I have had a lot of fun getting to play around with the ColorSource console.